<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Frequently Asked Questions</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.57"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Majordomo and MajorCool HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="MajorCool" HREF="x424.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="List of Terms" HREF="g516.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Majordomo and MajorCool HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x424.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="g516.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN478" >5. Frequently Asked Questions</A ></H1 ><P >Two questions occur often.</P ><DIV CLASS="QANDASET" ><DL ><DT >5.1. <A HREF="x478.html#AEN483" >Why does sendmail give the error, <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >sh: wrapper not available for sendmail programs</TT >?</A ></DT ><DT >5.2. <A HREF="x478.html#AEN491" >Why will Red Hat not process my mc file?</A ></DT ></DL ><DIV CLASS="QANDAENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="QUESTION" ><P ><A NAME="AEN483" ></A ><B >5.1. </B >Why does sendmail give the error, <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >sh: wrapper not available for sendmail programs</TT >?</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="ANSWER" ><P ><B > </B ><B CLASS="COMMAND" >smrsh</B > will only allow sendmail to execute certain files. See <A HREF="x54.html#SMRSH" >Section 2.2.4</A >.</P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="QANDAENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="QUESTION" ><P ><A NAME="AEN491" ></A ><B >5.2. </B >Why will Red Hat not process my mc file?</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="ANSWER" ><P ><B > </B >For some reason, Red Hat does not include the necessary files to process mc files. According to <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/mail/sendmail.mc</TT >, these files should be in the <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >sendmail-cf</TT > package; however, I was unable to find this package on the CD. To fix this problem, install Red Hat's sendmail SRPM, uncompress the sendmail tarball, and copy the necessary macro files. <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" ><TT CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT" >[root@kes root]# </TT ><TT CLASS="USERINPUT" ><B >rpm -i sendmail-8.11.0-8.src.rpm</B ></TT > <TT CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT" >[root@kes root]# </TT ><TT CLASS="USERINPUT" ><B >cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/</B ></TT > <TT CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT" >[root@kes SOURCES]# </TT ><TT CLASS="USERINPUT" ><B >tar zxvf sendmail-8.11.0.tar.gz</B ></TT > <TT CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT" >[root@kes SOURCES]# </TT ><TT CLASS="USERINPUT" ><B >cd sendmail-8.11.0</B ></TT > <TT CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT" >[root@kes sendmail-8.11.0]# </TT ><TT CLASS="USERINPUT" ><B >cp -R cf /usr/lib/sendmail-cf</B ></TT > <TT CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT" >[root@kes sendmail-8.11.0]# </TT ><TT CLASS="USERINPUT" ><B >cd ..</B ></TT > <TT CLASS="COMPUTEROUTPUT" >[root@kes SOURCES]# </TT ><TT CLASS="USERINPUT" ><B >rm -rf sendmail-8.11.0</B ></TT ></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > Also in the default <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >/etc/mail/sendmail.mc</TT > file, there is a slight syntax error. (The beginning single quotes on one line slant in the wrong direction.) The line that reads <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >define('ALIAS_FILE','/etc/aliases')dnl</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > should be changed to <TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="SCREEN" >define(`ALIAS_FILE',`/etc/aliases')dnl</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > After these two changes, the new <TT CLASS="FILENAME" >sendmail.cf</TT > should be generated properly.</P ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x424.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="g516.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >MajorCool</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >List of Terms</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >